#but lmao i've already been blocked by enough of the narnia fandom

[comebackali]

🔥 + narnia

this was literally sent to me 2 months ago lmaooooooooooo i was saving it for a rainy day (that’s a lie i was just procrastinating) but whatever better late than never

i’m only gonna be talking about the movies because the books didn’t much interest me. idk if that’s an unpopular opinion. there’s definitely a few of us blasphemous heathens out there who really only care about the movies. i can’t be bothered to care much about that. i don’t dislike them, i just don’t have much of an opinion on them, and i love the movies so much more. i’ve only read the books once or twice (once as a kid, and again as a teenager), as opposed to the movies which i’ve literally watched dozens of times. so as far as the movies go, i like prince caspian better than the lion the witch and the wardrobe. even though objectively i know that lww is better ~cinema~ (the score, the scope, the magic, the overwhelming heartwarmingness of it all, the cinnamontography!) i’m more emotionally invested in the pevensies in pc. as magical as lww is, it’s a story we’re already intimately familiar with. british kids finding a magical land that needs their help. cool. love it. but i am much more interested in a story dealing with the aftermath of the kids loosing said magical land. in pc we’re dropped right smack in the middle of all their anger and grief and trauma about it and I LOVE THAT SHIT. and it’s so much more interesting than the wide eyed innocence of lww. and lww is great! i think, especially for a kids film, the kids are fairly fleshed out and nuanced (especially edmund, obviously, but even peter, and susan to a lesser extent. lucy suffers the most in characterization imo, but she’s like 8 so we’ll allow it) BUT pc is better imo, simply for the fact that it’s now 15+ years later and they’re all adults trapped in kids bodies after loosing their whole fucking world. that alone would be enough for me to love it more, but the fact that they’re all dealing w/ their grief in various stages of bad and mad and sad is just *chef’s kiss* and i know people are mad about peter’s characterization, and edmund’s “this is my only line of continuous dialogue in the film,” and susan’s unnecessary “romance” w/ caspian (catch me putting that in quotes lol), (oddly enough, i hardly see anyone complaining about lucy, but imo her characterization is the weakest overall so 🤷‍♀️) and yeah, personally, i have way more issues w/ pc as a movie, but i also love it SO MUCH MORE. lww is like this perfect piece of cinema, but pc is where my heart lives, ya know? mostly because it shows me little glimpses of my truest love, The Golden Age. i love the echos we get to see of it in this movie. and the tragedy. love me some of that.